Hardware Inserts - How To Setup 

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Come on Barry, some people have stuff to do! == 00:00 Intro | 05:55 - Setup: Nuendo/Cubase | 11:12 - Setup: Studio 1 | 15:25 - Setup: Logic | 17:24 - Setup : Protools | 19:28 - End Thoughts

This tutorial feature is very essential for those needing to understand this concept to successfully accomplish 😊

Unbelievable timing, I am just about ready to pull the trigger on a Heritage Audio SUCCESSOR Stereo Bus Compressor and use Studio One with a Focusrite. Thank you so much. Joe

Thanks for still showing how to do inserts in Pro Tools since I'm still stuck using it for education/work purposes. Weaning myself off. Reaper is getting used more and more.

Such a excellent lesson on this topic Barry. I've got mine setup in Cubase pro but you talk about aspects of this that didn't know about so thanks so much for that. I've learned even more on this so really appreciate it. and you talking the time and energy to make this video so we can learn about these sort of things. Great job indeed sir . Nice one..

Excelent video Barry, Thanks!

Barry! What an outstanding video! Thank you so much

Great to see Barry. It's quite uncanny that you seem to raise just about every topic on all your episodes, that applies to my exact current situation, almost to the day it happens! Like Getting used to Hardware inserts on the same DAW's youmentioned, mapping issues due to Cubase 12 losing settings, my RME UFX+ Totalmix battles etc. Might need to sign up and do the Patreon thing me thinks..

Connecting multiple external midi instruments and being able to have all of them playback in sync is a major topic these days, because lot of people dont want to print audio right away and commit, but there is latency in midi which is very hard to resolve in Cubase and most DAW's, it seems to work really well in Bitwig, but it would be nice to show how to actually measure the delay on each instrument. There is no delay adjustment button in Cubase for external instruments. It would be great to see a video for this issue. Great video as always and this will help a lot of people.

a very good video - well produced with good content

This video would have saved a headache when setting up my first outboard!

Thanks for the tutorial. It helped a lot! 😀

An excellent video, thanks. Would be great if you could include an example for Mixbus 10

Thanks for this simple tutorial. I always thought there was some settings to account for the round trip latency or DA/AD conversion. Very helpful.

Finally! Thanks Barry!

Thanks!

Excellent presentation, thank you !

nice one barry

Excellent video!

Thanks for sharing👍💯

Thank you

Thank you!!

thanks for the info reaaly helpful !!

Ok so once the hardware insert is setup we can just record a track with the affect like a plug-in insert. But we would still have the dry unprocessed track in the DAW that we sent out to the analog unit. So we could potentially record multiple takes with that dry track to see which hardware settings works best I am thinking.? Or even swap out to a different hardware processor… ok so I see that using hardware inserts and sends will require a lot more time consuming work arounds that’s the other trade off obviously.

Thank you sir

Barry Thank you. I use LOGIC PRO X but w/ UA Apollo x6 & MK2 so I’m little confused with the routing since I use UA COSOLE 2.0 Software. I’ve been doing Mixing for 12 yrs and never have got this figured out. Only thing I use as in Outboard GEAR is my Channel Strip for Rec. VOX. Also I believe we have to “PING” for the round trip?

Thanks for the info I am having an issue and I also use studio one and I’m trying to be able to process the audio signal once recorded I have a distressor compressor and focusrite 18i20 3rd gen I have looked at videos and you’re video was as close I’ve gotten to it I would appreciate the help

Hello berry... stupid question...im using ssl fusion as an insert in pro tools but for the life of me I cannot figure out how to kill that delay .. I tried all delay compensation methods no kuck😢... I just noticed that you change the inserts from stereo to mono do you think that would help... In my situation...

Thank you . Question I have a small under the stairs studio I use a Scarlett 18i20 have two monitors and a 4 channel headphone amp. When should I use TRS cables for this set up ? Thanks again

What a great video, thanks so much for sharing your knowledge with us Barry. I am seriously thinking of upgrading from a focusrite saffire pro 40 to an RME Babyface pro fs. Its a jump in quality and would use the two XLR's for Kick and Snare and use the 8 pres on the Focusrite for 8 channels in adat for drums. Also thinking of running a tube preamp, albeit a cheap one by Behringer, but will try it as my first hardware piece on Kick and snare, then on my two buss. I can run the single headphone to a 4 channel monitor amp for for drums and vocals if needed. What are your thought Barry or anyone else? In this case, will the Baby be enough for this scenario? Or should I opt for the UCX11. Its $1000 more here in Canada. Thanks in advance. I just upgraded to an I7 24700 with a brand new 6 core PC with 16G of ram and USB 3.2 and windows 11. WIll be retiring by old I7 that is running my old Saffire pro through firewire on Windows 10. Saffire pro in only supported on Windows 7, but runs on 10, although super glitchy. Treated room with absorption at all reflection points, corners, walls and ceilings close to listening positions.

I have a problem with latency, basically half of my studio is unusable. The hardware is not only to big to use but it also changes almost every playback. So its like a cointoss sometimes it works sometimes not. Yes i´m using delay compensation and yes i tried using hw insert delay that did nothing.

Dumb question ,but if you wanted to add say a compressor and an eq, would you need two inputs and outputs or can you daisy chain the two on one set of ins and out? Great video and thank you so much!

How do you go about setting the right levels in your routing plugin? The gear needs to operate around +4db, but the level indication on the io plugin is displayed in dbFS if I'm not mistaken. Do you go at -18dbFS on the output? Thanks.

I watch a lot of your studio talks and I really appreciate you sharing your experience on lots of stuffs. This one was very informative as well. Could I ask one question tho? I do use Protools which only allows the input & output to be identical. How inconvenient! However, I still want to use Protools as I used it for a long time and I got used to it. Anyway, I have two outboard converters that will be connected with different digital connection. If I connect my outboard DA converter via MADI(Let's say output 33,34), can I still use that signal to my outboard AD converter that's been connected via SPIDF(Let's say input 10,11) if I route the signal accordingly in the RME totalmix? My understanding was put hardware insert 10, 11 on the track in protools and have that signal received in the output 33, 34 in totalmix.

Can you make a video showing the basic overview of these Daws? For me most daws are from the user interface are overwhelming and not so logic. So I work out of the box.

Can’t get my I/o to show up in Pro Tools! Trying to use the Warm audio bus compressor as a insert but the I/o will not show up help me out

are you supposed to do the same with the microphone preamp? I'm confused........

Need help with my setup

How does automatic delay compensation work in Pro Tools nowadays, or do you still have to calculate it manually unless you use Pro Tools HD?

Hey Barry, thank you for sharing your experience with us in this very informative video. I have one question: I just bought the Klark Teknik EQP-KT as my first piece of analog gear and I set it up properly but somehow I cant use it on my Master track. I think the solution is, that my master is in stereo whileas the EQP is in mono but how do other people use hardware gear in their mixing process? Do I have to buy some kind of converter or so to mix my master in realtime with my EQ? Best greetings, your former president

Thanks for the video... would be great if you could tie in RME TotalMix software with hardware inserts... I use Studio One and could never get my head around using Pipeline, TotalMix and hardware together. Salud!

Hey buddy

Barry i have scrarlett 18 i 20. gen 3 interface can i use a out board compressor in real time in my recordings with with the scarlett or is it after i get somthing recorded. thank you

Once you have your settings on the hardware just process it like a regular plugin are do you have to write it to the track

Can i use hardware with my apollo twin x with a patchbay or should i just buy an apollo x4

You said that most of the time it is not necessary to adjust the send level of the hw insert in studio one. If I am only using my wa-76 as a compressor insert, then i always need to push the send level because I am afraid to push the input knob on the wa-76. I had times when I pushed the input knob up to almost max. Can I end up pushing the input of the compressor too hard? And: Do I need to put my external preamp before going to my compressor? I tried it out and the result was okay, but i introduced extra noise (1073 style preamp) and now I am curious if it's the "right way" (i know, experimenting and listening is the right way :P )

Do we have to adjust i/o levels in totalmix in addition to the DAW?

Can i connect my outboard gear to the rme ufxiii

So how many physical ins and outs are required I picked up an X6 how many simultaneous pieces of outboard could I run from the patch bay Would it be 6 when mixing and 5 if I am effecting 1 mic input while tracking? Thereby printing those 5 Fx/Dynamics? Tying to determine if I need additional physical I/O like Audient asp880, Thanks

Great Channel ! Maybe you can answer this for me . I check round trip delay with 2 recorded click tracks like many channels show . And the problem is the hardware insert comes back ahead instead of being behind. Its super weird its like 12 samples ahead of the unprocessed recorded click.

Hi Barry, how can i do this on the Great River ME-1 NV??

@Barry could you help me setup my gear? I run Logic, Apollo X6, Avalon U5, RedDi, Neve RNDI1. How could I contact you?

No PT ?

In FL studio bro?

In a DAW like Logic, especially if your track is already recorded and you want to send that out to a hardware piece, don't you have to account for latency or does it just work?

Hey Barry is it normal to not hear plug-in effects after hardware inserts? I can hear them before Hardware inserts, but not after.. This happens on my main vocal track, I haven’t tried on send bus or master bus.

How would you do this with Abelton Live?

wont work for me.. Wtf am i doing wrong. I got the heritage audio ost-6 2.0 and i bought the ssl 500 series compressor.. Plugged in and into my ucx II and done exactly like you did in the video but it just dont wanna work

Hi Barry, I have a problem. I'm using the new version of protools , Focusrite Clarett 8pre running hardware through 3,4,5,,6,7, and 8 my issue is when I insert the first hardware everything is fine, but when I insert a second one on the same track I get a weird double robotic noise. I've tried lowering buffer, delay comp, muting and unmuting Focusrite control, swapping cables you name it. All my cables is Balanced as so. If you can help me I appreciate it.

Why is it when I I use a plugin after my bus comp it doesn’t affect my audio

andro here from Sydney Australia, I was wondering if you might be able to help me, I have loaded a session from another user on Cubase 12 still here And I’ve lost settings I’ve customized in my set up One which is a big deal I use a lot of external hardware 64 in 64 out with external effects compressors, EQs etc I lost all the connections It’s such a pain to have to do this again simply because I am loading a project not done on my main machine Now I’m really worried to load someone’s material in the fear of losing settings.. the worst part is you can’t save it as a preset in the connections for external effects Is there a work around or something in the settings so that if I load something it won’t load anything but the project ? Thanks a lot

Oh but what about the latency….?

why don't you use pro tools anymore?

Is there some sort of patch bay with BOTH at once, mice/line imput in a way that connecting one would disconect the other so that when things are inside a rack we could manage EVERYTHING without having to disconnect anything at all from the back?

Thanks!